Create A Mini Meadow

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A mini meadow will provide a home for grasshoppers and late summer frogs out hunting.

Below we describe a simple way to produce a meadow.

You will need the following:

6 ox-eye daisy plugs
6 field scabious plugs
6 meadow buttercup plugs
6 knapweed plugs
4 meadow cranesbill plugs
4 wild carrot plugs

Method 

1.      Choose a site - an area of lawn in a sunny spot about four metres in size, poor soil is great.  Put a piece of rope out to mark out the edges in a naturalistic swoop. Inside this area, place your plug plants in random patterns.

2.      Plant each plug with a narrow trowel by removing a circle of turf and replacing it with the plug. Water them after planting.

3.      Mow your lawn – on the outside of the rope only.

4.      Listen for the grasshoppers

Cost – about £30

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